T. Boone Pickens News

Rocky Top is smoldering after the Greg Schiano debacle, and Tennessee still needs someone to lead its floundering football program. Dan Mullen, believed to be Tennessee's top choice when it started the search, is off the board and hired at Florida. Matt Campbell is staying at Iowa State with an

Oklahoma State mega-booster T. Boone Pickens and coach Mike Gundy have had a frosty relationship over the years. But Pickens tweeted out a letter of support Monday that he sent to Gundy in the wake of the Cowboys' 62-52 loss to rival Oklahoma over the weekend. The two most important figures in the

Charlie Strong is lucky that billionaire T. Boone Pickens isn't a Texas alumnus. Pickens has been publicly critical of Mike Gundy, who coaches Oklahoma State, their alma mater. But Gundy was the one gloating after the Cowboys hammered the Longhorns 49-31 on Saturday. The Longhorns allowed 47 points

Out in Arizona and Utah they have what's called the Grand Staircase, a gigantic swath of America stretching from Bryce Canyon through Zion National Park and into the Grand Canyon . Anyone who travels that route is able to witness the evolution of our planet firsthand, a visible journey that reveals

IN A CLEARING on a grassy hillside near a two-lane highway in eastern Pennsylvania lie the bones of Jim Thorpe, the man considered by many to be the world's greatest athlete. Fashioned of polished stone the color of red riverbank mud, his tomb is oblong and almost 6 feet tall. A truck rumbles past,

Clemson coach Dabo Swinney had better start ordering some pizzas. Maybe Ohio State coach Urban Meyer can get him a good deal. With only two weeks left in college football's regular season, we're down to 12 teams for the four spots in the College Football Playoff. With plenty of important games left

A year ago, we called this list " coaches who need to make a run ," but we're going back to what it truly is: A list of coaches on the dreaded hot seat. Getting off this list isn't easy. Just ask Oliver Purnell, Steve Lavin and Anthony Grant. They were all on it a year ago and are no longer at

NOTABLES --5 CANDIDATES, 5 THINGS THEY NEED TO PROVE AT THE FIRST DEMOCRATIC DEBATE: We’re finally here -- just hours away from the first Democratic presidential debate and the pressure is on, ABC’s MARYALICE PARKS and LIZ KREUTZ note. Five candidates are meeting tonight under the bright lights of

A year ago, Oregon played in the inaugural College Football Playoff Championship, losing 42-20 to Ohio State. Nine months later, the Ducks are 3-3 and are in danger of missing the postseason. Was Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Marcus Mariota that good? The Ducks lost for the third time in five